Category Archives: Food & Drink

11th Mile: Fredericton’s New Cocktail Bar And Restaurant Goes The Extra Distance

It is an understatement to say that cocktails are having a moment; they are, in fact, having a decade. With the return of classics, old favourites, and a train-load of new concoctions and ingredients, cocktails have not been this front and center of the Stained Wood stage since the weeks following prohibition.

Eager to meet that task, 11th Mile has thrown down quite the gauntlet in a city with its fair share of bars and mixers to work them. Continue reading 11th Mile: Fredericton’s New Cocktail Bar And Restaurant Goes The Extra Distance

Niche Brewing Aims To Fill The Gaps In New Brunswick’s Craft Beer Market

The team behind Niche Brewing, Fredericton’s newest brewery, are not what you’d imagine belonging to a modern species of craft brewers. They don’t possess any of the stereotypical qualities: no big shappy oil-dapped beards framing a couple of round-spectacled faces and topped with dock worker tuques. It is not only the first wave of Shawn Meek and Rob Coomb’s beers that are flying in the face of what people might now come to expect when they think of “craft beer,” it is how little they care about what’s trendy and how much they care about what’s tasty. Continue reading Niche Brewing Aims To Fill The Gaps In New Brunswick’s Craft Beer Market

Bulwark Cider: Nova Scotia Cider Hits UK As First In A Series Of Export Markets

Muwin Estate Wines’ Bulwark Cider might be homegrown in Nova Scotia but it’s about to go worldwide this March. The cider is headed to London, U.K. as the first leg of its international journey, taking advantage of an increasing demand for Canadian products. The cider will be pioneering a new category in the U.K.: super-premium cider. Continue reading Bulwark Cider: Nova Scotia Cider Hits UK As First In A Series Of Export Markets